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the governor of south carolina, nikki haley, has chosen scott to replace senator jim demint. scott is 47, he has a strong conservative voting record. an inspiring personal story. the official announcement apparently comes tomorrow. there are four years remaining in senator demint's term. >>> talks continued today for the approaching fiscal cliff, which was the big story before newtown, and it's still approaching as these talks go on, as the tragedy perhaps puts politics in a new light. the president and the speaker met again today. our own chuck todd reports that the republicans have submitted some concessions on tax rates. the democrats on spending. as we said, it goes on. >>> how about some news from the moon, where a short time ago tonight, two satellites named ebb and flow went crashing into the moon intentionally. their job had been to go around and around in orbit and measure the moon's gravity. since they we running out of fuel, they were allowed to crash far from anyistoric u.s. landing sites, closer to the moon's north pole. >>> when we come back tonight, the small g
the governor of south carolina, nikki haley, has chosen scott to replace senator jim demint. scott is 47, he has a strong conservative voting record. an inspiring personal story. the official announcement apparently comes tomorrow. there are four years remaining in senator demint's term. >>> talks continued today for the approaching fiscal cliff, which was the big story before newtown, and it's still approaching as these talks go on, as the tragedy perhaps puts politics in a new light....
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south carolina conservative, jim demint, a hero to many, is retiring next month. nbc's david gregory, the moderator of "meet the press," has more on the surprise announcement. >> reporter: about four years early, a lot of people thought it would happen by 2017, but not at this point. in his term, demint was somebody who turbo-charged the tea party movement. he told me he would like to see the party really adopt more of these tea party ideas. that really didn't happen. there were more internal fights. he did have success in fielding candidates and also failed. he said they didn't do enough to establish what the party was for. he is going to try to be a force behind the party. >> and one more, senator coburn, from texas, somebody the president has a good relationship with opened the door toward raising taxes on the wealthy. is this the start of something? >> reporter: yes, i think a lot of things are misplaced. i talked to a lot of people. more and more conservatives like coburn said fold on the tax rates, let them go up so that we conservatives can get a better dea
south carolina conservative, jim demint, a hero to many, is retiring next month. nbc's david gregory, the moderator of "meet the press," has more on the surprise announcement. >> reporter: about four years early, a lot of people thought it would happen by 2017, but not at this point. in his term, demint was somebody who turbo-charged the tea party movement. he told me he would like to see the party really adopt more of these tea party ideas. that really didn't happen. there were...
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. >> reporter: at the patriots point navel and maritime museum in charleston, south carolina, u.s. navy veterans now in their 70s have volunteered to help preserve the uss laughy, a destroyer built during world war ii. in 1945, the laughy was hit by five come coz cities and three bombs killing 31 crewmembers. to the men who served afford the laffey, saving her is personal. also at patriot's point is the carrier uss yorktown known as the fighting lady which served in world war ii and vietnam and also recovered the apollo ast astronauts before being retired in 1970. but other historic ships around the country, the yorktown is in need of costly repairs. >> the wear and tear from the salt water. >> reporter: rasing repair money for these privately run museum ships is a huge challenge. >> when you're looking at tens of millions of dollars that it will take to restore the uss yorktown, you can't sell enough t-shirts to make that happen. >> reporter: already a dozen historic ships have been lost. this ship, a cold war era submarine now in danger of toppling over. repairing it will cost mo
. >> reporter: at the patriots point navel and maritime museum in charleston, south carolina, u.s. navy veterans now in their 70s have volunteered to help preserve the uss laughy, a destroyer built during world war ii. in 1945, the laughy was hit by five come coz cities and three bombs killing 31 crewmembers. to the men who served afford the laffey, saving her is personal. also at patriot's point is the carrier uss yorktown known as the fighting lady which served in world war ii and...
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Dec 25, 2012
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on wednesday, our severe weather threat shifts over to the carolinas as the snow shifts up to the great lakes, in northern pennsylvania and new york. wednesday night, the low starts to redevelop on the coast pulling the cold air in but not enough to create a major snow event for the northeast i-95 cities. so we should be doing okay there. but still, nonetheless, snowy travel for many across the appalachians and northern new england. going back to wednesday, d.c., certainly impacted. pittsburgh, on back into cleveland, all these airports where we expect the snow, there will be severe weather in raleigh down to the south of this. but it's all go up to the north because the storm hasn't gotten into the thick of it yet. thursday, up into new england goes the meat of the storm. but backlash snow and wind. and on friday, we got the all go as we are now in a break between storms. but a break is the keyword there. but here comes the trough of low pressure sliding off to the great lakes and the rocky mountains. and that means a new storm will develop and impact these areas into saturday. a lot o
on wednesday, our severe weather threat shifts over to the carolinas as the snow shifts up to the great lakes, in northern pennsylvania and new york. wednesday night, the low starts to redevelop on the coast pulling the cold air in but not enough to create a major snow event for the northeast i-95 cities. so we should be doing okay there. but still, nonetheless, snowy travel for many across the appalachians and northern new england. going back to wednesday, d.c., certainly impacted. pittsburgh,...
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Dec 2, 2012
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lester, the stadium will reopen tomorrow when the chiefs host the carolina panthers. no doubt right now this is a challenging time for this city and of course the organization. >> all right thanh truong in kansas city tonight starting us off, thank you. >>> now to another still developing story, this one in miami where investigators are trying to figure out how a bus driver got lost, ended up at the airport, and slammed the bus into an overpass. at least two people have died. many more are hurt. nbc's craig melvin has the latest. >> reporter: police say the passengers, more than 30 of them, were part of a church group. most of them were elderly. >> fire and rescue crews had to use the jaws of life to cut a huge hole in the side of the bus to access the patients. the front of the bus is so heavily damaged that crews could not get into the bus. >> reporter: officials say the driver went past two large signs warning drivers about the low overpass. >> we're still not sure why he did not see the clearance sign which would have told him that his bus was too tall for the are
lester, the stadium will reopen tomorrow when the chiefs host the carolina panthers. no doubt right now this is a challenging time for this city and of course the organization. >> all right thanh truong in kansas city tonight starting us off, thank you. >>> now to another still developing story, this one in miami where investigators are trying to figure out how a bus driver got lost, ended up at the airport, and slammed the bus into an overpass. at least two people have died....